Best Sounding Exhaust for 318?

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Yoox_II

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I have a single thrush tube on my D150. It sounds alright but it's obviously a cheap entry level pipe. In your guys opinion what's the best sounding exhaust for your 318 engine? I really prefer the "new truck" V8 sound over the older, slower revolution engines but I'm not ready to do an engine swap. So what exhaust do you recommend? I want to he noticed every time the light turns green. As long as it's loud, I will like it.

PS: there is a massive hole in a different section of my exhaust which is nice and loud so I could always just keep the hole if I can't find a particular exhaust pipe that sounds good.
 

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does your truck have a cam? that could make things sound better. personally i like my truck quiet. then when you race some ricer they won't know what hit them. being loud does not make the vehicle go quicker. it usually just draws the cops attention your way.
 

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I would assume your '84 is not running a Catalytic Converter by this point.
I would look into a ****** AeroChamber for 'loud'.
I ran one for a while, it rattled my head stupid, but had a nice tone to it as well.
 

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sidepipe glasspacks. summit has a kit for 300$. sounds amazing.
 

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If u want loud and obnoxious straight pipe it all the way with 3"pipe and 5 or 6 " tips that's how mine is. I'm very noticed and I hate it lol I'm fix in to go quiet
 

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As 88rambigblock said, glasspacks are great. A neighbor has dual glasspacks on his 87 ramcharger and it is LOUD. It sounds ********, but honestly I couldn't do dual glass, only a single. Dual is way too loud for my liking, I'm going to hook up to a single glasspack and then split from there to dual tailpipes.
 

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Just put 24" long Thrush packs on it.

The Thrush packs are thicker than Cherrybombs so they absorb more sound.
 

86 Power Ram

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My personal Setup

I have an 86 w150 with a 93 318 swapped into it. If you get some nice headman headers, and flowmaster super 40's, Itll sound super mean, and its loud, but not like blow your ears out loud
 
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